No signs LPR is to ease COVID entry rules - Pasechnik

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There are currently no preconditions for easing Republican entry rules in response to coronavirus, said LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik in an interview to the Russian TASS News Agency.

"As the epidemic situation changes amendments to restriction might emerge, but currently there are no preconditions for it," Pasechnik said.

LPR Head reminded that imposing travel bans in view of the COVID-19 threat is an internationally accepted action.

"That is why we introduced travel restrictions at the Stanitsa Luganskaya checkpoint as the pandemic broke out and swiftly spread in Ukraine. We provided for an opportunity to cross the checkpoint in case there are essential reasons to do so."

Residents of Ukraine-controlled territories can visit the LPR to receive medical attention, for the purposes of education, taking care of elderly relatives, attending funerals, receiving humanitarian payments for Russian-speaking Ukrainians.

The World Health Organization called the COVID-19 coronavirus infection a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus. The first coronavirus infection cases were recorded in China in late 2019. The number of coronavirus contacts across the world has exceeded 207.1 million by now; of those, over 4.3 million people died, according to the WHO. Lugansk People’s Republic medics recorded 7,915 coronavirus infection cases in the Republic as of August 18.

A number of lockdown measures are in place across the LPR to curb the spread of the virus. *t

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